Carbon Emissions Quotes

• The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Opportunity, Impact, Pace

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• Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and that's what our goal is for human civilization to thrive, a stable climate. We don't want one that's hotter, we don't want one that's colder, we want one that's stable.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Zero, Civilization, Goal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity.

  Tom DeLay

  Business, Cutting, Opportunity

  "Firms offered help shrinking carbon footprints" by Hilary Osborne, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2006.

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• The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Technology, Electric Vehicles

  "Exclusive Q & A with Elon Musk on the Tesla Roadster and the future of EVs". Interview with Sebastian Blanco, www.autoblog.com. July 26, 2006.

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• The annual output of carbon emissions is 25 billion tonnes and Global Cool's goal is to reduce it by one billion tonnes a year.

  KT Tunstall

  Years, Goal, Output

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• Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

  Vinod Khosla

  Coal, Gasoline, Electric

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• That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions

  Dennis Prager

  Fighting, Evil, Phenomenon

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• The Clean Power Plan is a bold step not just in lowering carbon emissions, but also in creating the clean energy jobs of the future.

  Catherine Cortez Masto

  Jobs, Creating, Steps

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions by 2020 rather than 2040, we get another 2° of fever rather than 3° - and that's a big difference.

  William H. Calvin

  Past, Differences, Energy

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.142, William H. Calvin

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• With a decrease in the number of pirates, there has been an increase in global warming over the same period. Therefore, global warming is caused by a lack of pirates. Even more compelling: Somalia has the highest number of Pirates AND the lowest Carbon emissions of any country. Coincidence?

  Tim Ferriss

  Country, Numbers, Pirate

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• Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Heart, Thinking

  "The Bhakti Way of Investing in the Ecology of the Heart" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.

  Fred Upton

  Mean, Cutting, Thinking

  'The Rachel Maddow Show', www.nbcnews.com. December 29, 2010.

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• In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

  David Miliband

  Business, Environmental, Energy

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• If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.

  Barack Obama

  Climate, Cost, Able

  "Obama on Obama on Climate" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2014.

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• The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something - oil, coal, or natural gas - leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy. The new energy economy harnesses the energy in wind, the energy coming from the sun, and heat from within the earth itself.

  Lester R. Brown

  Oil, Wind, Way

  "Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization". Book by Lester R. Brown, October 5, 2009.

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• There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Mean, Cutting, Impact

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot economist [Sir Nicholas Stern]. Environmental head bangers are talking nonsense when they claim that aviation is the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions. Coal-fired and oil-fired power stations are the biggest contributor of carbon but I have yet to hear any fearless eco warriors advocating nuclear power as they drive around in their SUVs to their next protest meeting.

  Michael O'Leary

  Lying, Warrior, Talking

  "Labour targets airlines over carbon emissions" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2007.

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• The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high level of coordination. Like lemmings in a staged dive off a cliff, 'historic' became the media's rallying cry. There is nothing historic about the deal. In fact, news reports from November 2012 noted that China expected, in 2012, that its carbon emissions would begin to decline after 2030 because of factory upgrades, efficiencies, etc.

  Erick Erickson

  Media, Rallying Cry, Accomplishment

  Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• President Obama flew to China a few days ago and announced a joint environmental pact with the communist regime. The United States will reduce its carbon emissions substantially over the next 11 years. China will do absolutely nothing but hope that its emissions decline after 2030.

  Erick Erickson

  Years, Environmental, President

  Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Energy, Climate, United States

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• 'Goals' and 'caps' on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the air.

  James Hansen

  Air, Long, Goal

  A letter to Obama by James and Anniek Hansen, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2009.

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• ...if we all turned down the thermostat in our house by just one degree, we would save over £650 million worth of energy and nearly nine million tonnes of carbon emissions every year. That would be the equivalent of taking three million cars off our roads...we can bring about a Green Consumer Revolution in this country to improve our lives, enrich our economy and protect our environment.

  David Cameron

  Country, Years, House

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• I am worried about climate change. In one respect, I may be more worried than other people. I am worried because I have very little confidence that we know what is causing it....One of my fears is that we could reduce carbon emissions by some drastic amount, only to discover that-oops-it turns out that climate change is being caused by something else.

  Arnold Kling

  People, Climate, May

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• To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for carbon emissions. We're at $30 a tonne, so we're already double that. But our economy is growing at a faster rate - three per cent of GDP is our projected growth in British Columbia.

  Christy Clark

  Government, Talking, Gdp

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the oldest in Europe - is costing us the earth... After transport, heating is the second biggest driver of energy demand in Britain. British Gas research suggests that householders who put in energy efficiency measures cut their gas consumption by 44%. Better insulated buildings will do much of the work for us.

  Chris Huhne

  Home, Cutting, Europe

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